An Artist Carved Out An Entire Cave & Musical Instruments Out Of Ice And The Result Is Breathtaking

Tim Linhart, an artist from New Mexico, USA, has been carving ice sculptures for over 30 years now. He has been building frozen concert halls for over a decade and his latest one is packed with fully functional musical instruments that are made almost completely out of ice.

About twenty years ago, Tim carved a musical string bass entirely out of ice from the top of a mountain, and decided to continue with this unique endeavour. The only problem he ran into was that he needed a space with a constant freezing temperature to store these instruments.

To make his cave, he chose the Swedish town of Lulea, which is located just below the Arctic Circle. He specifically designed the cave so that it would keep the delicate ice instruments cold, even when the hall is full of people.

He said, "You got hot bodies next to cold instruments and they're melting...the strings on the stringed instruments begin to get softer and the pitch goes down.

"On the pipe instruments [the pitch] begins to go up, so you've got the orchestra going in two different directions."

Check out a video of the unique project below:

Since the cave has two domes to help with letting out the heat of the audience and keeping the instrument chilled, the concert hall can easily host entire gigs. Looks like we’ve got a new destination to head to.